Yet it could not have been more than a matter of seconds, and then the front of the British army came into view.

I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.

McClellan then resisted the President's demand that he pursue Lee's retreating and exposed army, while his counterpart General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee.

In 317 BC he returned with an army of mercenaries under a solemn oath to observe the democratic constitution which was then set up.

Xerxes then personally led a second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, taking an enormous ( although oft-exaggerated ) army and navy to Greece.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

Arnulf then personally led an army across the Alps early in 894.

The Umayyad army then moved to Bobastro, while the cavalry was sent to the castle of Sant Batir, which was abandoned by the defenders, allowing Abd ar-Rahman's troops to secure a large booty.

He then turned upon Moreau's army, which he defeated and forced out of Germany.

Cato's army then encountered it along with other serpents on the march.

The resulting fight between the townsfolk and Lamarr's army of thugs breaks the fourth wall, quite literally ; the fight spills out from the Warner Bros. film lot into a neighboring musical set being directed by Buddy Bizarre ( Dom DeLuise ), then into the studio commissary, where a pie fight ensues.

Wallace leads his army to victory at the Battle of Stirling and then sacks the city of York.

He then leads his army into battle against the stunned English, winning the Scots their freedom.

Darius then began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

During the night of 30 ( 17 ) June 1913 they attacked the Serbian army at Bregalnica river and then the Greek army in Nigrita.

The Greek army then divided its forces and advanced in two directions.

He was then able to reassemble the Cossack host, which was able to present a substantial army to confront the Poles at Bila Tserkva.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

In 1949, José Figueres Ferrer abolished the army ; and since then, Costa Rica has been one of the few countries to operate within the democratic system without the assistance of a military.

The most famous historical account of trebuchet use dates back to the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, when the army of Edward I constructed a giant trebuchet known as “ Warwolf ”, which then proceeded to “ level a section of wall, successfully concluding the siege .”

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 71, having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army, he moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the edge of London.

The Béziers army attempted a sortie but was quickly defeated, then pursued by the crusaders back through the gates and into the city.

The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

In 1966 a military coup deposed the first president of Upper Volta, Maurice Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

Provincial governors had a great deal of power in local matters, and an army was placed at their disposal to enforce tax collection and suppress dissent.

British forces defeated the Italian army in Eritrea in 1941 at the Battle of Keren and placed the colony under British military administration until Allied forces could determine its fate.

The major decisive battles of the Hungarian army were placed in the second or third lines consisted mainly of the most valuable parts of the army-in general heavy cavalry ( 1146, 1278, 1349 ).

Greater importance was placed at this time on development of the army, which was expected to be more important in any war.

He placed loyal but often unqualified Cyrenaicans in all senior command positions, limited the armed forces to 6, 500 men, kept the army lightly armed, and built up two rival paramilitary units, the National Security Force and the Cyrenaican Defence Force which was recruited from Cyrenaican Bedouin loyal to the Sanussi.

Supply chains forced armies to travel more slowly than a light skirmishing force and were typically centrally placed in the army, protected by the infantry and outriders.

A military coup deposed Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

The treason by the Venetians placed the huge Turkish army ( 60, 000 ) under sultan Murad II in close proximity to the unsuspecting crusaders ( 20, 000 ).

* June – Emperor Ling placed his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends Liu Bei to defeat the rebel forces in Runan.

On Saturday they and Wallace rode on to the bridge, which was of good plain board, well made and jointed, having placed watches to see that none passed from the army.

As Edward moved forward on the main road to Stirling, Robert placed his army on either side of the road north, one in the dense woods and the other placed on a bend on the river, a spot hard for the invading army to see.

On the eve of battle, he decided to move his entire army at night and placed it in a marshy area, with its cavalry laid out in nine squadrons in front of the foot soldiers.

The warriors belonging to the army of Charles the Bald, were placed to guard the Abbey of St. Denis, but fled when the Danish Vikings executed their prisoners ferociously in front of their eyes.

When the two met at Bragg's headquarters in the evening, Bragg placed Longstreet in command of the Left Wing of his army ; Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk commanded the Right.

In August 1934, with the Red Army depleted by the prolonged conflict, a spy, Mo Xiong, placed by Zhou Enlai in the KMT army headquarters in Nanchang brought news that Chiang Kai-shek was preparing a major offensive against the Communist capital, Ruijin.

He was the last of a series of emperors placed on the throne by Aspar, the Alan serving as commander-in-chief of the army, who thought Leo would be an easy puppet ruler.

" When Hidalgo's mestizo-indigenous army attacked Guanajuato and Valladolid, they placed " the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which was the insignia of their enterprise, on sticks or on reeds painted different colors " and " they all wore a print of the Virgin on their hats.

A Berlin pharmacist is credited with the proposal to use rags with prussic acid placed on bayonets to combat the advancing Napoleonic army in 1813.

Her decision was met with little protest as the Seljuk Turks had overrun much of Cappadocia and had even taken the important city of Caesarea, meaning that the army needed to be placed under the command of an able and energetic general.

Zhou Enlai ordered army units placed around some temples and other ancient structures to protect them.

Apparently Rome had placed its defense in the hands of an entire army of cowards, which not only could not hold one hill but after drawing up a line of battle could not stand even the first charge of the enemy.